Thom Hartmann, I think, echoing what I have been saying in SR for several years now, has nailed it, and this is what worries me more than anything else. Hate, and resentment are crippling the United States and destroying our democracy at a time when unity of intention, and preparation for what climate change is doing have never been more essential. The 2024 election is going to be the turning point. If the Republicans take the majority in the Senate, retain it in the House, and God forbid win the White House I think in four years the United States will be a country we barely recognize.
MAGAt hater Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-GA) (L) fist-bumps Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) (R) during a hearing before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee. Credit: Alex Wong / Getty
Denver conservative radio host Mandy Connell publicly changed her party affiliation from Republican to independent on her program this Monday, a week after giving a thoughtful and largely apolitical interview to Talkers Magazine publisher Michael Harrison on his podcast. On her own program she was blunt:
“As much as I hold conservative ideals and values in many, many ways, I will not be a part of the cult of Trump anymore. I don’t want people to say, ‘Why is your party doing this?’ I don’t want people to look at me and say, ‘What is wrong with your party?’ It’s not my party. It’s the party of Donald Trump in Colorado.”
Denver’s Channel 9 News, reporting on Connell’s leaving the GOP, noted Monday:
“Connell is one of 133 Republicans that changed their voter affiliation since Saturday. The majority switched to unaffiliated.”
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